Apricot Brandy Fruit Cake Recipe

Marinate overnight in about 4 jiggers of apricot brandy.

Apricot brandy fruit cake recipe.

Marvellous would highly recommend. Gradually fold into the fruit mixture until evenly coated. Fold into fruit mixture. Soak the chopped apricots and dried fruit except the cherries in the brandy in a bowl overnight leave out in the kitchen and by the morning the fruit will have absorbed the brandy.

Pour into two greased and waxed paper lined 9x5 in. I soak the fruit in a shallow airtight glass or plastic container. Baking soda 1 c. My partner was one of my test cake tasters and i have more than a sneaking suspicion that he might have been guilty of finding minor things to improve.

Stirring them several times during the day. In large mixing bowl combine cake mix pudding mix apricot brandy oil water and eggs. Apricot brandy white fruitcake recipe. This recipe starts 24 hours in advance with the soaking of the fruit in the brandy.

Mix 1 cup flour to the above and stir well. 1 of 3 apricot fruitcake. Cover with foil during the last 30 minutes. Meanwhile place ripe and dry apricots in a clean bottle or jar ball style.

With a shallow pan of water in the bottom of the oven bake at 275 for 2 1 2 hours or until cake tests done. I honed and perfected my own recipe for apricot brandy white fruitcake posted at the bottom of this page by baking oodles and oodles of test cakes. Beat on medium speed for 10 minutes. But mama s a southern baptist so drinkin s a sin.

After 24 hours the fruit should have soaked up practically all of the rum. Use real butter and add a little coconut flavouring. Sugar 4 eggs 2 c. Grease bottom and sides of 12 cup fluted tube cake pan or 10 inch angel food tube cake pan with shortening.

Stir then nuke again for 30 seconds or until syrup mixture boils. Keep in tightly covered container. 2 in large bowl beat all ingredients except powdered sugar with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds scraping bowl constantly. Place water and jam in microwave save container and nuke 1 minute on high.

The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of great aunt margaret s christmas fruitcake recipe which must be soaked in peach brandy. Pour batter over pecans in prepared bundt pan.